Arap Ocağı (Ağırnas)
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What the sources say
Arap Ocağı (Ağırnas) is a hypogeum recorded in Melikgazi district, Turkey. The catalogue places it at 38.8173° N, 35.7206° E and links it to Wikidata item Q139423901.
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About Arap Ocağı (Ağırnas)
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A rock-cut tomb is a burial chamber cut into a naturally occurring rock formation, usually into a cliff or sloping rock face, though it may also go downward in flat ground. It was a common burial form for the wealthy in ancient times in several parts of the world. A hypogeum, literally "underground", is a subterranean temple or tomb that often has niches for cremated remains or loculi for buried ones. The full article, “Rock-cut tombs of Anatolia and Iran”, follows below under About this kind of monument.
Dating
This site is undated in the open records the Atlas draws on, and the Atlas does not guess a date for it. Where a regional range exists for this kind of monument it is given in the notes on this page, as background and not as a date for this site.
Landscape and neighbours
The catalogue lists 0 other sites within 1 km, 0 within 5 km and 2 within 10 km; none of them is of the same kind. It is one of 1 hypogeum records among the 11 sites catalogued in Melikgazi district, Turkey.
Nearest to it are Kültepe (8.4 km north-west, other / unclassified); Kara Tepe Tumulus (8.9 km south-west, megalithic mound); Çifte Kümbet Tümülüsü (18.7 km south-west, megalithic mound); Gültepe Tümülüsü (22.1 km south-west, megalithic mound). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
Records and protectionSources for this section
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The open records used here carry no heritage designation for the site, which says nothing either way about its legal status. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q139423901), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Sites of this kind often lie on farmland or other private ground, so check local access rules before visiting and leave the monument as you found it.
How this page was madeSources for this section
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Nothing on this page was written by an AI model: it is assembled by program from Wikidata (CC0) and the regional article “Rock-cut tombs of Anatolia and Iran”, written for the Atlas from the Wikipedia articles it cites (CC BY-SA 4.0), with distances and counts calculated from the catalogue coordinates.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Rock-cut tombs of Anatolia and Iran
A rock-cut tomb is a burial chamber cut into a naturally occurring rock formation, usually into a cliff or sloping rock face, though it may also go downward in flat ground. It was a common burial form for the wealthy in ancient times in several parts of the world. A hypogeum, literally "underground", is a subterranean temple or tomb that often has niches for cremated remains or loculi for buried ones.
Important clusters are found in Iran and Turkey. At Naqsh-e Rostam, about 13 kilometres north-west of Persepolis in Fars province, the cliff face holds the tombs of four Achaemenid kings, notably Darius the Great and his son Xerxes, and a series of rock reliefs cut over more than a millennium from the Elamites and Achaemenids to the Sasanians. Other notable clusters are at Myra in Lycia, in south-west Turkey, at Petra in Jordan, where the Nabataeans cut tombs, and in ancient Israel.
The tombs of kings can be dated through the rulers they name, but an uninscribed rock-cut chamber in the countryside can only be assigned a broad range, since a cut chamber holds no material that can be dated by itself.
Folklore: the name Naqsh-e Rostam means "mural of Rostam", after the legendary hero of Iranian tradition, though the reliefs are the work of Elamite, Achaemenid and Sasanian kings.
When visiting, look at the façades and the position of the tombs high on the rock face.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Rock-cut tomb, Wikipedia: Hypogeum, Wikipedia: Naqsh-e Rustam · CC BY-SA 4.0
Where it stands
Turkey
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 38°49′02″ N, 35°43′14″ EFor a GPS or map app: 38.81728, 35.72058
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Kültepe3300–1200 BCE- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Kara Tepe Tumulus700–50 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Çifte Kümbet Tümülüsü700–50 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Gültepe Tümülüsü700–50 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Garipler Tümülüsü700–50 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Beştepeler Tümülüsü II700–50 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Beştepeler Tümülüsü III700–50 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Beştepeler Tümülüsü I700–50 BCE
Sources
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Around this place
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Credit
Text, licence and sources
This page is assembled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a tradition article paraphrasing Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). No article exists for this site, and nothing here is written by a model.
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- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
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